I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.

The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

our value/belief system acts as aconditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.